dream and reality

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understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.

Many of the animations were produced using Flash and will no longer work.

When I was a teenager I had a dream that my grandad gave me 50p. (By that age he was probably giving me £1, or even £5, when we visited him.) The next day I went to secondary school as usual, and when I arrived at the bus stop near my house, there was 50p on the pavement, right where I'd normally wait. The bus stop was in frequent use, so I felt fortunate to be the only one to spot the coin. I thought at the time that this was a strange coincidence. Annabel
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Date submitted:Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:40:32 +0000Coincidence ID:4592